IC Prospective: Sam Winchester (First year)

[camebackhome]

Character: Sam Winchester
Mun: Amanda can't stop want stop
Plot specific: Nope.

If lycanthropy is a disease, why is there such a stigma against werewolves? I mean, I know they're dangerous during the full moon, but there's the wolfsbane potion, right? It makes them not as feral or something. Not to mention transmission happens under very specific circumstances, and there's no proof if it's hereditary. So why do people act like werewolves are so bad? They're still people, right? They're people more than they're wolves.

It's kind of like how people with leprosy were/are treated. There's ways to treat lycanthropy and to keep it from being quite so easily transmitted, but there's such a stigma against the people who have it.

Are there colonies, too?

Comments

[taleweaving]

An excellent question. I suppose, much like the muggle stigma against leprosy, or in a more recent HIV's, a similarly transferred disease the fear is there 8ecause people don't understand it. They have firm ideas on how it's spread and what the results are and they refuse to look past those to see the people afflicted with them. Even when treatments 8ecome availa8le there is still the idea that these people are some how wrong, cursed, or just dirty, and so people shun them and education never occurs. And I suppose cases of new8orns not understanding their condition, or sometimes not even knowing what it is they are afflicted with and lashing out with it as there is no one there to help them hasn't helped. Then again the wizarding world is filled with age old prejudices, especially against those who aren't simply wizards and witches, though hopefully with He Who Should Not 8e Named's defeat these ideas will 8egin to die out as they are due to.

8ut frankly, a werewolf or a vampire who is aware of their condition and takes measures to treat it is no more harmful than the average human, 8e they muggle or wizard. I'd 8e more concerned a8out dark arts practitioner .

...Am I correct in that you are a Winchester?

[camebackhome]

But why haven't muggleborn witches or wizards try to help? They weren't raised with the pureblood prejudices for werewolves, or vampires, or anything, so why aren't they more compassionate and helpful?

Same here. Isn't someone with malicious intent more worrisome than someone who can't help it?

Yeah. I'm Sam. Do you know Dean?

[taleweaving]

I suppose the time that they spend around pure8loods encourages the prejudices to grow in muggle8orns. From what I recall, muggle entertainment doesn't often have the 8est view on people with those diseases, yes?

Exactly! It's nice to see that someone understands that. They have a disease, yes, 8ut they still have their control and moral code.

We... met. Having a discussion on this very topic. Your 8rother doesn't have the same views as you do, unfortunately.